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say it: turm
term is a noun and verb meaning "a word or expression used for some particular thing". It is pronounced /ˈtɝm/ — turm. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a limited period of time
“a prison term”
“he left school before the end of term”
any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
“the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree”
one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
“the major term of a syllogism must occur twice”
(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
architecture
name formally or designate with a term
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for term come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.